OREANDA-NEWS. February 04, 2011. Minister of Economy Danylishyn personally allowed state procurements with violations. Among the violations discovered by the audit, a significant part - 15 bln UAH – took place in the area of public procurement.

In 2008-2009, the Cabinet of Ministers adopted over 60 decisions that allowed holding state procurements without tenders, which are used to determin the most efficient supplier of goods and services.

Based on the fraudulent scheme described above State Enterprise Ukrmedpostach received a thousand Opel Combo minivans, which did not meet any international standards for EMS vehicles, and are basically unsuitable for the transportation of patients. Despite this fact, all above mentioned minivans with were personally presented by PM Tymoshenko with PR stickers reading: Tymoshenko Government Program in the course of the Presidential election campaign.

The cars were purchased from one party - an intermediary company, but the supply chain included 8 offshore companies! As a result, their price was more than doubled, and the budget suffered direct losses in the amount of 80 mln UAH. Besides, now, after the repayment of the loan secured by the Government, we will have to pay another 48 million UAH of VAT, plus additional excise and customs duties.

All procurements of medicine and medical equipment by the Ministry of Health Care for combating the epidemic of swine flu were also carried out solely through intermediaries, which lead to the increase of cost of at least two-fold, and losses to the state budget in the amount of over 40 mln UAH.

In 2008-2009 the Ministry of Economy approved public procurement from a single bidder (i.e. without a competitive bidding procedure) in 39 cases, with no grounds to apply the simplified procurement procedure. This is a direct violation of the current legislation in the amount of over 1 billion UAH.

Thus, on September 4, 2009, the Minister of Economy Danylyshyn signed a letter of approval on the application of procedures for procurement from one bidder of the works on reconstruction of the airfield complex "Kharkiv International Airport" in the amount of 696.6 million hryvnia (bidder – Construction and Installation Company # 813). The same company was approved to reconstruct the Borispil airport. On September 23 Danylyshyn signed a letter of approval on the application of procedures for procurement from one bidder for the procurement of works on construction of administrative buildings, underground parking and a canteen for the Supreme Court of Ukraine in the amount of 95.5 million hryvnia (bidder - "Manufacturing Company ‘Bytremstroymaterialy’”). On October 1, Danylyshyn signed the approval letter on the procurement of works in the amount of 97.5 million hryvnia for the reconstruction of water supply system of Lviv City from one party - the Energy Resource Corporation.

There are dozens of such examples of absolutely unjustified, non-urgent procurement from one bidder.

1500 tons of meat that was allegedly purchased from Suvorov Meat Factory for penitentiary system, for a total amount of 51 million UAH, which were never received by the prisons. Counter-audit of Suvorov Meat Factory, where the meat was allegedly kept, revealed that that factory did not even have refrigerators or storage facilities to store the meat, so it physically could not have been stored there.

The total amount of violations in the State Penitentiary Department was 470 mln. The State Financial Reserve revealed embezzlement of funds in the amount of 4,2 billion UAH.